Tracking a partner with smart tech considered stalking under changes to NSW domestic violence laws

Minns government set to bring in sweeping reforms after premier vowed to learn from the death of 28-year-old mother Molly Ticehurst's preventable' death

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The NSW government will modernise the definition of stalking" to cover smart technology facilitated tracking increasingly being weaponised by domestic abusers as part of a suite of reforms that aim to strengthen protections for victim-survivors of domestic and family violence.

They will also increase the penalties for repeated and serious breaches of apprehended domestic violence orders (ADVOs), introduce serious domestic abuse prevention orders, and make it easier and safer to change a child's name.

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